Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1961. First edition. The author's only book. An advance copy INSCRIBED by Brammer, "For Wm. Beckman -- Friend of famous Arthurs / Pen Pay of Genius Poets / Patron of the Pataphysician. From his boon companion Wm. (B. L.) Brammer 3/21/63 (4 a. m.)." One of the best political novels we've read. Brammer worked for LBJ and became a heavy user of drugs which eventually led to his death. Set in an unnamed state identical to Texas, each novella has a different protagonist: a member of the state legislature; the state's junior senator; and the governor's speechwriter. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician (said to have been based on Brammer's mentor Lyndon Johnson) serves as the dominant figure throughout. The book also includes characters based on Ladybird, and LBJ's brother Sam Houston Johnson. The book, which earned the author a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. has been widely acclaimed as one of the best American political novels ever written. Yellow printed wraps a bit soiled and a bit worn on edges but still very good. INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY.

New York: Chelsea House, (1927). First edition. A little offset on front endpaper, otherwise fine in brown cloth with black lettering, in darkened dust jacket which has tape reinforcement around all edges on verso. Scarce or rare in any jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First edition. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering. Covers spotted and large, old bookstore stamp on front endpaper, still good in an about very good, Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket, which shows some wear and chips on corners and spine ends, with the one at bottom of spine an inch or more. One of Brand's scarcer titles. Same cover image as Dodd, Mead jacket.

New York: Putnam, 1920. First edition. Some minor wear to red cloth, spine label darkened, and front hinge paper separated, otherwise good or better in a reprint (A. L. Burt) dust jacket with a few chips but basically complete with some tape on outside. Still a reasonable copy of a scarce book in the first edition with a jacket that has the same pictorial front cover as the original.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. First edition. Small indentation at bottom of front panel otherwise the book would be fine in a complete dust jacket. but with some edgewear and a number of small chips. For some reason this title appears to be scarce.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935. First edition, second printing, the same year as first. Very good in grey cloth with black lettering, in an A. L. Burt reprint dust jacket with rubbing, and with spine ends and tips chipped. Same cover art as Dodd Mead edition.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. First edition of Frederick Faust's first book, under his most famous pseudonym Max Brand, and the author's first western. Very good in red cloth with light offset on endpapers, hinge papers starting, spine slightly sunned and light soiling. Lacking the rare dust jacket.

Brandt, Willy.NORTH-SOUTH: A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVAL; A Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues under the Chairmanship of Brandt.

Cambridge (Mass.): M. I. T. Press, (1980). First U.S. edition. Paperback original. SIGNED BY BRANDT. Willy Brandt (1913 - 1992) was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. Skinned section affecting "Technology" in Press address at bottom of rear cover, subtle yellowing to front cover, otherwise very good to near fine in paperwraps.

New York: Delta Book, (1981). First edition in paperback. Short stories written while he was dividing his time between Japan and his ranch house in Montana. First published in a limited editon in 1979 and a hard cover trade issue in 1980. Bright and near fine in pictorial paperwraps with just a few tiny rubbed spots and a touch of inconspicuous soiling. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION.

Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. First edition thus: edited and with essay of appreciation by Bridges. With 29 illustrations, including the picture by Holbein etched in the author's time, to which is added Mr. Angarola's drawings of his conception of the period & drawings by way of contemporary comment by Gene Markey. The book is very good in dust jacket with large chip at bottom of spine (about a third); and another chip on front edge of front cover not affecting any lettering.

Boston: John W. Luce & Co. 1913. First edition, and first American edition. Two plays, with preface by H.L. Mencken. They were translated from the French by Frederick Eisemann. With no dust jacket, in very good to near fine condition.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Sequence of "poems suggested by themes or events in the life of Abraham Lincoln." In New Directions "Poet of the Month" series. Plain stiff paperwraps in blue, printed dust jacket. (There was also a small simultaneous issue in boards.) Near fine with edges a little tanned.

(Brockett, Linus Pierpont),. An American Citizen.THE PHILANTHROPIC RESULTS OF THE [CIVIL] WAR IN AMERICA: Collected From Official and Other Authentic Sources, By An American Citizen.

New York: Sheldon & Co. 1864. First edition thus, expanded from the 59-page book of the same name published in New York in 1863 by Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas. Recounts and charts the needs of the nation during the Civil War and the ways in which various peoples and organizations came together to fund the fight. 16mo., 160 pp., pebbled brown cloth boards with decorations in blind and gilt stamped. Ownership signature of S.G. Hammond. Good to very good with sunning to spine which is frayed at ends. [Sabin 8161].

Philadelphia/New York/Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1985. First edition. Fine in publisher's slipcase without dust jacket, as issued. Slipcase has soiled area on back (presumably from sticker residue) and minor scuffing to bottom.

Minsk: Eridan, 1992. Presumed first edition with "first time published in our country and abroad" (in Russian) on copyright page. Written in the Russian language. Volume one of a two-volume set collecting poems, essays and plays, this volume being poetry only. Near fine in like dust jacket with only mild soiling and shelfwear and one thumb-nail sized chip from top edge rear panel. Although not noted in the book, this volume is from the collection of Robert Wilson, who operated the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City from 1951 to 1989 and was a prominent member of the literary community.

New York: Random House, (1998). First edition. Oversize, 8 1/2 x 11 inch proofs bound with unprinted black cloth spine and heavier blue paper covers with just the title on front. 354 pages. We assume these were issued before any other proofs. Few "handwritten" (in the copy) changes to the text. Near fine with front cover lightly soiled.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publ. 1939. First edition. From the library of Chicago artist Arthur Johan Anderson with his bookplate on front pastedown. Three novels and two novelettes by Bromfield. Red cloth near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, a few shallow chips and small closed tears.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1950). First edition. INSCRIBED at his Malabar Farm, "Malabar 1950 For Charlie Rogers with the friendship and best wishes of Louis Bromfield." Very good or better with pictorial endpapers showing faint offset and cloth with a little wear. In a supplied very fine dust jacket almost new with two small closed tears.